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HB 1889 Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement, extended benefits.

Introduced by: Samuel A. Nixon, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)

Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement. Postpones the scheduled increase, from $2,700 to $3,000, in the minimum amount of wages an employee must have earned in the two highest earnings quarters of his base period in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits. The increase will apply to claims filed on or after July 4, 2010; it is currently scheduled to apply to claims filed on or after July 5, 2009. The measure also expands the criteria for a state "on" indicator, during which unemployed individuals are eligible for 13 weeks of extended benefits, to include weeks when the unemployment rate equaled or exceeded 6.5% and was more than 110 percent of the average for either or both of the corresponding three-month periods ending in the two preceding calendar years. Such weeks are required to fall between February 1, 2009, and the week ending three weeks prior to the last week for which federal sharing is authorized by § 2005(a) of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


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